Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-08

lS45, ] think. The price of the SER
vices of this horse | do rot remember.
but think it was five dollars: it may
have been SO. During the season of
1915 my father, F. II. Abbott, and myself
bred to him bay saddle mare of con-
siderable celebrity known as Wild Goose,
whose superiority for style and action
was proverbial she was 15l hands
high. The progeny was a brown colt
which was naturally saddle horse in
every respect. When two years old
broke and taught him the first principles
of his early education. To say that he
was an exceedingly apt scholar but feeb-
ly expresses it. The impressions made
in connection with this are the more for
chilly and indelibly inscribed upon my
mind from the fact that it was on an ever
memorable anniversary of American in
dependence-July 1. 1S4S-when. my
heart fired by the reoicings of my fellow
citizens. | was prompted to mount the
finest saddle horse in our section to ride to
a barbecue given the volunteers who had
just returned from the Mexican war.
"As a saddle horse he was used that
summer, fall and winter, and in the
spring of 1919 went to California. Dur
idg the season of 1850 John Corbin, then
OF Bourbonc ounty, went South with
stock. My brother French went with
him and took said stallion to Columbia.
Tenn. where he sold him to Mr.. Stone.
at that time a livery-man of Columbia,
accepting the obligation of Stone as pay
ment for the animal. On the first Sun
day in August. 1851. the day anterior to
the election of the immortal Brccken-
ridge to Congress. returned to kentucky
and cast my vote at Paris the next day.
Meanwhile Stone had failed to meet his
obligation for the horse. In the fall of
the same year | had occasion to go to
Columbia, and found the horse still in
possession of Mr.. Stone.
This horse was unquestionablv the
same as indicated heretofore, and the
same as mentioned in letter to you
sometime ago. In that letter am of the
impression that the date of his foaling
was stated to have been 1915, when in
fact it should have been 1916. My re-
memberance of Parker's Brown Pilot is
that he was dark brown, l6,l hands high
with large star, white on the nose, both
hind feet white to perhaps above the pas
terms, exceedingly stylish, and a perfect
saddle horse. When led by the bride he
exhibited trotting action of the first order,
and he was very blood-lille in appearance.
SO far as the pedigree given being au-
thentic. | never knew it to be questioned.
The death of the dam of Stones Pilot
occurred in 1852. She had been on the
decline for some two years.
There was but one foal subsequent to
that of Pilot, which was bay fill sired
by a Copperbottom horse that was sired
by Chinn's Copperbottom and raised by
my father. This tilly was sold by my
father to VIM. Richardson of Bourbon
mare of no ordinary worth, from the fact
that at that day, when saddle-horses COM
manded but a limited figure, she sold for
$500. The pedigree of the dam of Stones
Pilot | forwarded you in a letter some
time ago.
! The acceptance on your part of the ties
of consanguinity existing between Stones
Pilot and Old Pacing Pilot of Louisville,
sire of Pilot, .Jr., is an error There was
nothing of the kind, as the genealogy is
brown. l6 hands high, and a perfect gait
ed saddle-horse in every sense.
The John Corbin alluded to above. if
alive, is. think. living near Eminence.
Ky w. W. Abbott. in Wallace's
Monthly.